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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 31</span><span class="fp-text">LE CHAUVE ET LA MOUCHE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula XXXI</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">CALVUS ET MUSCA</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Une Mouche piqua la tête d'un Homme chauve ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">celui-ci, cherchant à l'écraser, se donna une forte tape.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Tu voulais te venger d'une légère piqûre</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">par la mort d'un petit être ailé, lui dit la Mouche en se moquant ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">comment te puniras-tu du mal et de l'affront que tu t'es faits&nbsp;?&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">L'Homme répondit&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Je ferai promptement la paix avec moi-même,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">parce que je sais que je n'avais pas l'intention de m'offenser.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Quant à toi, vil et méchant animal,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">qui te plais à sucer le sang humain,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je voudrais te tuer, dût-il m'en coûter plus encore.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Calvi momordit musca nudatum caput ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quam opprimere captans alapam sibi duxit <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n135/mode/1up">p.72</a>]</span> gravem.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Tunc illa inridens&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Punctum volucris parvulae</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">voluisti morte ulcisci ; quid facies tibi,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">injuriae <span class="fp-correction" title="quia dederis  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">qui addideris</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="qui addideris  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">quia dederis</span></span> contumeliam&nbsp;?&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Respondit&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Mecum facile redeo in gratiam,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quia non fuisse mentem laedendi scio.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Sed te <span class="fp-correction" title="contemsi  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">contempti</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="contempti  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">contemsi</span></span> generis animal improbum,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quae delectaris bibere humanum sanguinem,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">optem necare vel majore incommodo.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Cet exemple nous apprend qu'il faut pardonner une faute involontaire ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais celui qui cherche sciemment à nuire,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je le juge digne de tout châtiment.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hoc argumento veniam dari docet</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">qui casu peccat quam qui consilio est nocens,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">illum esse quamvis dignum poena judico.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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